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2007-10-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-
10,000 wildebeest drown in freak accident
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Posted by Delphi 2007-10-03 12:35|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Bewilderbeest.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-10-03 14:07||   2007-10-03 14:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Comparing a wildebeest accident to 9/11. Somebody needs a sense of proportion.
Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan  2007-10-03 14:08||   2007-10-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Conclusion: Wildebeest's are pretty fuckin stupid.
So much for those "jungle instincts"...
Posted by tu3031 2007-10-03 14:12||   2007-10-03 14:12|| Front Page Top

#4 When I consider the abundance of wildebeest and zibras, I wonder why the Africans never domestigated them. But then, they never invented the wheel either. Whatever.
Posted by wxjames 2007-10-03 14:42||   2007-10-03 14:42|| Front Page Top

#5 The smarter wildebeest didn't drown and will go on to breed. Evolution in action.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2007-10-03 15:13||   2007-10-03 15:13|| Front Page Top

#6 WXJ,

from what I've seen and read African animals are NOT domesticatable which was part of the reason great civilizations didn't succeed there.

Don't remember the reasons but some species just can't be tamed like a cow, goat or sheep can. It wasn't through lack of effort.

Apparently the African Elephant cannot be trained in the same way as an Indian Elephant can.
Posted by AlanC 2007-10-03 15:39||   2007-10-03 15:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Your cute Zebra has that same kick-ass problem about domestication. It's been tried.
Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-10-03 16:56||   2007-10-03 16:56|| Front Page Top

#8 they ain't dumb; better to drown than be immoliated by a big-assed rock in 2029.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-10-03 17:32||   2007-10-03 17:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Ten thousand carcasses polluting the Mara River - women, children, and wildebeests hardest hit.
Posted by NYT 2007-10-03 18:20||   2007-10-03 18:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Zebras have a really nasty tendency to bite that no one has been able to breed out of them. If you've ever been bitten by a horse, then you know just how much of a deal-breaker this is.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-10-03 18:31||   2007-10-03 18:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Al Gore says: don't interfere with Mother Nature because she always gets it right.
Posted by McZoid 2007-10-03 19:12||   2007-10-03 19:12|| Front Page Top

#12 AlanC: African elephants are mean, aggressive and dangerous. Asian elephants are far more docile. Ironically, Asian elephants that were raised in the wild are far easier to tame than those bred in captivity.

However, during mating season, all elephants are dangerous as all get out. Artificial insemination was often lethal to elephant handlers, until they finally invented a torpedo-sized electrical device to insert into the tail pipe of male elephants, to stimulate their prostate.

It is still not what you could call a "fun job."
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-03 19:21||   2007-10-03 19:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Thanks, moose. Between that image and the Whoopi Goldberg/Nan Pelosi image, I'ma not gonna sleep tonight.

Oh well, just one more reason to love Rantburg U., though, LOL! I absolutely do "learn summin' new every day" here.
Posted by BA 2007-10-03 20:11||   2007-10-03 20:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Heh. We could probably work a gay wildebeest/ass-teriod joke in here, but I'm still creeped out by the whoopi-pelosi thing.

Wildebeests have been wildebeesting for the last few millennia and this cannot be the first time a herd-load of them have drowned crossing a river. You will notice that there are still oodles of them around.
Posted by SteveS 2007-10-03 20:36||   2007-10-03 20:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Um, yeah. Conservationists were in tears? Over a herd of stupid Wildebeest? It's happened before. There was a mass drowning of more than 5000 animals as I recall some 10 or 12 years ago. Each time, they come back stronger.

Besides, Crocs and Vultures gotta eat, don't they?
Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-10-03 20:51||   2007-10-03 20:51|| Front Page Top

#16 One hell of a regional-local barbecue - too bad Dubya + Moud, Kucinich + 2008 Dems are not on good terms right now. Hollywood will always have CHarleston Heston and Muslim-Chritian party scene as per El-CID. *OTOH, 10,000 wildebeesties yet many Africans go hungry - whats the purpose of having Genetic/Bio-Engineers that can't feed the hungry???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-03 20:56||   2007-10-03 20:56|| Front Page Top

#17 From Mogambo:

Clark Gable: Those are called Thompson's gazelles.

Grace Kelly: Who is this Thompson to have gazelles named after him?

Ava Gardner (very sour): He was a third baseman for the Giants who hit a home run once.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2007-10-03 21:07||   2007-10-03 21:07|| Front Page Top

#18 It is still not what you could call a "fun job."

Hey, the pay is low but the tips are big.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-10-03 22:00||   2007-10-03 22:00|| Front Page Top

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